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Units 1-2 Flashcards

1
Q

What is America’s secret to success?

A

righteousness

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2
Q

What is the idea that work is a gift from God?

A

Protestant Work Ethic

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3
Q

What speed are you to raise the flag?

A

Briskly

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4
Q

What are a system of middle age colors that have different meanings?

A

heraldry

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5
Q

What is a solemn promise?

A

a pledge

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6
Q

Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?

A

Francis Bellamy

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7
Q

Who was Francis Scott Key’s friend that was taken captive?

A

Doctor Beans

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8
Q

What are located above the bench above the Supreme Court?

A

10 Commandments

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9
Q

Who was the first black American to achieve a four-star general?

A

Chappy James

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10
Q

Who said, “Ask not what your country can do for you…”

A

Kennedy

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11
Q

What latin verb means to steer a ship?

A

government

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12
Q

What word means God’s power to rule?

A

Sovereignty

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13
Q

What was the first civil ordinance?

A

Capital Punishment

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14
Q

What is the government’s purpose?

A

To punish the guilty and protect the innocent.

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15
Q

What is another term for man’s law?

A

Positive law

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16
Q

What was an example of a positive law that did not line up to God’s Law?

A

Hammurabi’s Law

17
Q

What is our duty if human law violates God’s law?

A

To disobey it

18
Q

What type of government means the ruler is limited by a constitution

A

A Constitutional Monarchy

19
Q

What type of government means to rule by one’s self

A

autocracy

20
Q

What economic system controls resources and income?

A

Socialism

21
Q

What is the type of government where the ruler exercises unlimited power usually inherited.

A

Absolute monarchy

22
Q

What type of democracy is where the people rule indirectly through representatives

A

Indirect democracy

23
Q

What dictatorship controls all aspects of society

A

Totalitarianism

24
Q

A totalitarian dictatorship is where all power is vested in one ruler

A

Fascism

25
Q

Who is an example of a good monarch

A

Queen Victoria

26
Q

Who is an example of a bad monarch

A

King John

27
Q

Who is an example of an absolute monarch

A

Louis XIV

28
Q

What city is an example of direct democracy

A

Athens

29
Q

What 2 things are required in a direct democracy

A

A small population, like-mindedness

30
Q

What is the cornerstone of American government?

A

Character

31
Q

What is the greatest influence on English law

A

The Bible

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